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50 000 Rupiah 25 Years of Development under President Haji Mohamed Soeharto
| Issuer | Bank Indonesia |
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| Year | 1993 |
| Type | Commemorative banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 50000 BANK INDONESIA PENERBITAN KHUSUS SOEHARTO BAPAK PEMBANGUNAN INDONESIA 1993 DIREKSI GUBERNUR DIREKTUR 25 TAHUN INDONESIA MEMBANGUN LIMA PULUH RIBU RUPIAH 50000 (Translation: Bank of Indonesia. Special Issue. Soeharto - Father of Indonesian Development. Board of Directors. Governor. Director. 25 Years of Indonesian Development. Fifty thousand rupiah.) |
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| Reverse lettering | 50000 BANK INDONESIA BANDAR UDARA INTERNASIONAL SOEKARNO-HATTA LIMA PULUH RIBU RUPIAH 50000 BARANGSIAPA MENIRU, MEMALSUKAN UANG KERTAS DAN ATAU DENGAN SENGAJA MENYIMPAN SERTA MENGEDARKAN UANG KERTAS TIRUAN ATAU UANG KERTAS PALSU DIANCAM DENGAN HUKUMAN PENJARA (Translation: Bank of Indonesia. Soekarno-Hatta International Airport. Fifty thousand rupiah. Whoever copies, counterfeits and/or intentionally stores and circulates copied or counterfeited banknotes is threatened with imprisonment.) |
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Indonesia's first polymer banknote, this 50,000 Rupiah was issued to commemorate twenty-five years of Soeharto's Pembangunan program — the state-directed development ideology that restructured the Indonesian economy from the late 1960s onward. The choice of polymer substrate was deliberate: Australia's Note Printing Australia had been aggressively marketing Guardian polymer technology across Southeast Asia, and Indonesia's adoption of it here was as much a prestige signal as a counterfeiting deterrent.
The note became politically awkward well before it left circulation. Soeharto resigned in May 1998, mid-series, leaving a commemorative note honoring a deposed president in active use. Bank Indonesia withdrew it with quiet efficiency.